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… the elongated model of the ingots found at Enkomi, of Cypriot Iron 1, with a superabundant relation, is also found in Crete, not but the examples coming from the failures seem to be, but the signs seem ideographic signs of the accounting tablets of Cyprus, of the writing in B style.
Well before the Cnosso period, between 1400 and 1100 before era, these tablets are contemporary with the period to which it must, according to their formula, naturally attribute the linears of native coming from Enkomi.
The distribution of these cut ingots as far as Crete and to Byblos (Syria-Palestine) and Ugarit (peninsula ?) [illegible] (Ras Shamra)
Handwritten: annotation in blue ink, underlined and bracketed, illegible
... ... but [illegible] we are not [illegible] before the West Jaqu'en, Kaltiye-Ugarit or Nora? Sugar...? [illegible] Enkomi, [illegible] (Hodeiia?)...
We thus arrive at the conclusion that it is no doubt held of the sea, and more particularly to those who were not masters of Cyprus in the 12th c., to whom the spread of the must be attributed linears of native of the Ras-Shamra? or Ugarit? type from Enkomi.
They, the new arrivals in Cyprus at the beginning of the Iron Age. Then opened during against or in also a taken (none?) ... intervention ... techniques p?s ? frontier. They had at Enkomi to face a kind ... ... set about whom one not vengeance do not make the nature, in a Dyna- ... ... ... at the level and all the fire during the season of the pillages ... considerable warlike of the attacked city and sortie-bas.
Handwritten: 1
The excavations resumed... The palace ... of Ville in ... at Ras ? At the time of the evacuation of the Tanneaux stations during the present half of the 12th c., contemporary with floor IV, we observed one of the numerous later reconstructions that had become devastated before ...
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain